Major Newspaper Databases
- ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of many U.S. and international news sources. Includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Times of London, plus other newspapers and news wires.
- Newspapers.com – World Collection This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com Library Edition offers full page newspaper images with searchable full-text of newspapers. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to both full runs and portions of runs of newspapers.
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
This collection includes the full text of historically significant African American newspapers, published in 36 states.
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1998 This link opens in a new window
Hispanic American Newspapers is fully searchable, full-text compilation of Spanish-language or Spanish-English bilingual newspapers printed in the U.S.
- Access World News-Historical and Current This link opens in a new window
Find diverse global perspective on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos, and web-only content.
A-Z Databases
Looking for more newspaper databases or digital collections of primary sources?
The libraries' A-Z Database list is an excellent resource for identifying appropriate databases for your research. Select "Newspapers" or "Primary Sources" from the dropdown menu under All Database Types.
UA Libraries Special Collections
Digital Collections of Primary Sources
- Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) – University of Alabama Student/Employee Access This link opens in a new window The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with 24/7 online access to premier library and information resources free of charge. AVL provides access to several types of resources such as Dictionary/Encyclopedias, Literature, Current Events, Business, and E-Books.
- America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers This link opens in a new window Part of Accessible Archives, this collection addresses America in the World War I Era.
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window Material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection contains early contacts between Europeans and American Indians and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects of those encounters on American Indian life. It covers the period from early western frontier through the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.
- American Memory This link opens in a new window Gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research and gender studies research.
- Archives Unbound (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Archives Unbound provides collections of historical primary documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century political history.
- Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection This link opens in a new window A digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, politics, and culture from colonial times to the 20th century. Series 1 and 2 contain advertisements, books, broadsides, essays, newspapers, pamphlets, short stories and more.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
- Documenting the American South This link opens in a new window A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new window Primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. Includes federal records, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries is organized in five subject categories.
- Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. Includes primary and secondary materials for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more.
- Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window This collection of primary resources documents international women’s social movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Included are conference proceedings; reports of international women's organizations; publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organization; and letters, diaries, and memoirs.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window Published histories and records of women’s reform organizations throughout the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes The History of Woman Suffrage; proceedings of the national conventions of female Anti-Slavery societies in the 1830s and of women’s rights conventions in the 1850s and 1860s; annual reports of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; and local and national histories of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.